Interdisciplinary resilient spatial planning based on the reconstruction of Otsuchi, Japan

Interdisciplinary resilient spatial planning based on the reconstruction of Otsuchi, Japan

Flores Herrera, Emma (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)
Gori, Antoine (TU Delft Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
Ozcan, Aylin (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)
Panayi, Zoe (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)
Prida Guillén, Álvaro (TU Delft Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
Nimmi Sreekumar, Nimmi (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)
van Unnik, Eline (TU Delft Civil Engineering & Geosciences)

Broere, S. (mentor)
Askarinejad, A. (mentor)
Bricker, J.D. (mentor)
Hooimeijer, F.L. (mentor)
Pel, A.J. (mentor)
van de Ven, F.H.M. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Civil Engineering | Hydraulic Engineering

Master project report | MP299

2019-06-01

The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake had a devastating impact on the town of Otsuchi in Iwate Prefecture, resulting in 1,234 immediate deaths and 59.6% of residential houses being fully damaged amongst other severe consequences. The post-disaster Reconstruction Plan (2011-2018) of this town focused on rebuilding the previously existing town with large-scale engineered interventions, resulting in a fragmented set of spatial interventions which solve problems in a single faceted way. The management of a post-tsunami reconstruction process should represent a resilient design for the future. This paper demonstrates that a modified land use design, developed and achieved through an interdisciplinary approach, represents a holistic solution to the drawbacks of the reconstruction plan. Through an iterative framework, site-specific strategies are developed at the urban and the building scale that combine safety and livability by finding synergies among disciplinary fields in an integrated manner. The result of this paper is a quantified evaluation of the reduction in flood risk achieved with a new design, making spatially evident the areas in which a refinement is required to mitigate flood damage.
Subject: tsunami; interdisciplinary; resilience; spatial planning; strategy

tsunami
interdisciplinary
resilience
spatial planning
strategy

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5ad3ec97-4fb9-40d0-a9b2-7fbc5eaccc55

39.36, 141.90

Student theses

student report

© 2019 Emma Flores Herrera, Antoine Gori, Aylin Ozcan, Zoe Panayi, Álvaro Prida Guillén, Nimmi Nimmi Sreekumar, Eline van Unnik